Looks like GK wants to keep AT's ATL, but change schedule a bit

[General Lee]

In Your Six, "Corndogs" is a name that General Lee uses all of the time. You're getting sloppy and forgetting which screen name you're signed in under.

I've never ever seen anyone else call them a "Corndog", only ME. So, everyone else who uses that MUST pay me money, right stiffy? When I hear something funny, I often repeat it. Maybe OYS did that too. Are you the FI police now, because you're bad at it.




Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

I was always blown away by this mentality from Delta.

It's like charging for mustard for your hotdog. It was free yesterday, but the new policy is we charge for it. Unless.. you buy a coke, then the mustard is free.

Unbelievable.

Airtran (or your management) is still charging for bags. Why didn't they just stop that practice immediately? Maybe they like it. You also didn't use to pay extra for priority boarding at SWA, but now you charge something like an extra $10, and you get a drink. You don't really know what you are talking about....



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[redflyer65]

You don't really know what you are talking about....



Bye Bye---General Lee

Really? Coming from you? Someone who likes to make facts up as he goes along. You really think the AAI bag fees will be around when the full integration is done? Seems like you might be clueless again Genital. Maybe it's time for your sundae on the way to Darfur. Don't forget the body armor. HaHa!

RF

 

[GuppyWN]

Historically SWA has created new markets with low fares, the jury is still out how well they will compete with the full service airlines in head to head competition.

Yeah like PHX, LAX, MDW, DAL, DEN, BWI, LAS, etc. I'd venture a guess that almost none of the 3300 flights a day we fly are in direct competition or are routes that weren't flown before by someone else.

Good call.

Gup

 

[Full of LUV]

Yeah like PHX, LAX, MDW, DAL, DEN, BWI, LAS, etc. I'd venture a guess that almost none of the 3300 flights a day we fly are in direct competition or are routes that weren't flown before by someone else.

Good call.

Gup

There is no denying that SWA has changed it's game plan significantly over the last 15 years. No doubt they have demonstrated that by keeping growth at a reasonable pace and reporting profits rather than blindly chasing market share has produced some consistent results. All the airlines have morphed in the last 15 years so it's not SWA of the 80's vs Eastern. There is enough business for all to prosper, key is to make sure that Air India isn't flying LAX BOS turns for pennies on the dollar in the next 10 years.
LUV

 

[Dornier 335]

key is to make sure that Air India isn't flying LAX BOS turns for pennies on the dollar in the next 10 years.

I doubt they have the money to do that ...

source

Air India Has No Money To Buy Boeing 787, Says Aviation Minister

Sep 12, 2011

Debt-ridden national carrier Air India does not have the funds to pay for the 27 Boeing 787s it has ordered, Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi said Sept. 9, a day after the country’s nodal public auditing agency flayed the state-run airline’s hasty expansion plans.
“The decision to acquire a large number of aircraft was risky and has contributed predominantly to the airline's massive debt liability,” the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) said in a report sent to parliament on Sept. 8. The fleet acquisition process also took an “unduly long time,” the CAG said (Aviation Daily, Sept. 9).
Ravi, in reacting to this report, says that the delivery of the 27 aircraft had been delayed by Boeing for three years. He did not specify whether the order would be confirmed or canceled, but made clear that if these aircraft were delivered, there is no money to pay for them.
“I don’t have the money to pay ... I cannot beg the finance minister all the time for the money. It is difficult. This is the position now. The government cannot say we are confirming or we are rejecting,” the minister said in an interview on a local news channel. The delivery of the first Boeing 787 to Air India is reported to have been further delayed by two months to December.
The CAG report tabled in parliament last week takes the Civil Aviation Ministry to task for a faulty and hasty expansion plan that involved funding the purchase of new planes with debt or loans, calling it a “recipe for disaster.” The CAG said this led the airline to its current financially crippled state. To a suggestion by the CAG that Air India be left alone by the government to have a chance for survival, Ravi says the ministry will intervene to look at profitability, admitting that it is currently difficult to meet payroll. “This is the situation, that is the interference. You must understand our problem,” he said.

 

[GuppyWN]

Can a 787 go from Phoenix to Honolulu? Maybe I should forward that to Gary.

Gup

 

[On Your Six]

Really? Coming from you? Someone who likes to make facts up as he goes along. You really think the AAI bag fees will be around when the full integration is done? Seems like you might be clueless again Genital. Maybe it's time for your sundae on the way to Darfur. Don't forget the body armor. HaHa!

RF

You don't like the bag fees? You could have asked for a raise in your joint contract if you had kept the fees, or maybe some stock too. Instead, you counted on the AT guys to roll over for the money. Ooooops! Now it really will cost you! Enjoy your roach quesadilla at the La Quinta, Tulsa Airport----boyyyyyyy!!!


Godspeed Cornie! That ISL will be painful, but, you might be okay. Seniority is forever, Red.


OYS

 

[On Your Six]

Can a 787 go from Phoenix to Honolulu? Maybe I should forward that to Gary.

Gup

You guys still need to master the VNAV and autothrottles first. Slow down!


Godspeed!


OYS

 

[redflyer65]

You don't like the bag fees? You could have asked for a raise in your joint contract if you had kept the fees, or maybe some stock too. Instead, you counted on the AT guys to roll over for the money. Ooooops! Now it really will cost you! Enjoy your roach quesadilla at the La Quinta, Tulsa Airport----boyyyyyyy!!!


Godspeed Cornie! That ISL will be painful, but, you might be okay. Seniority is forever, Red.


OYS

Like arguing with and idiot...

What joint contract are you talking about OYS? We already have one. Did I offer AAI money? No. What are you ranting about? Obviously stuff you just pull out of your @ss.

I don't like bag fees, because it's a complete rip off for YOUR passengers. You see OYS, it's a different way of thinking. You and your bvtt buddy Gen actually like to rape your passenger for more money, for...wait for it....YOUR extra income. That's legacy thinking bro. Your passengers already HATE your product. Do some research. So throwing MORE fees is like adding fuel to the fire. The differences in how SW passengers view SW and the way your passengers view DL is night and day my friend.

Have you ever really listened to your passengers talk in the terminal? I makes me laugh everytime. Heard one guy bitching about the jet bridge not being pulled up to the plane for 15 friggin minutes. His buddy said "That would never happen at Southwest". And guess what? He's right!

I have no worries about the ISL. It will either work for us, or it will be kept seperate. Do you really doubt that? If you do, then your more clueless than I thought.

RF